Tonight, at 7pm Chris and I are going to be playing Resident Evil 5 together on his Twitch channel. The game was designed for Co-Op, building the combat around the two-person team of Chris Redfield and Sheva. If you play it single-player – which is how I played this back in 2009 – then Sheva […]

Sooner or later every man reaches the point in his life when it’s time to make the stereotypical “out of touch old man rants about a thing he doesn’t understand”. For me, that point is this week, when I rant about TikTok. (Although I suppose you could argue that this ENTIRE WEBSITE should fall under […]

After 15 years of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, I’ve come to associate a lot of actors with their prominent superhero roles. This leads to situations where – like all old men – I find myself thrashing around, invoking the wrong names for things because I can’t remember the right ones. Perhaps I’ll be talking about […]

This week, Rocketeer recounts how our heroes escaped from prison and then bumbled around town trying to find the plot. This disastrous opening has left our writer in a terrible position. The main characters are out of prison and are finally free to do what they want… except they all have different goals, none of […]

So with the entire setup of the game thoroughly fistfucked by our party’s newest addition, our heroes steamroll another non-story-pertinent boss and are spat out into the desert just east of Rabanastre. Here, we smack down some cockatrices. What is a cockatrice? I’ll let the game tell you. “Lo, the mighty cockatrice, proud-feathered sphere, known […]

Congrats to Paul, who is now a father. Again. I’m at the age where I’m nostalgic about those hectic early years of child-rearing. Heather and I are unquestionably done having kids, but once in a while we stop and smile at someone else’s toddler and say to each other, “Man, it would be great to […]

This game continually throws me off-balance because it keeps shifting between styles of storytelling. Sometimes we’re doing the Serious Worldbuilding For Grownups, and sometimes we’re in lighthearted cartoon action-adventure mode. I am fine with either of these, but I really needed the storyteller to pick one and stick with it. Which brings me to the […]

While knocked out in the clink, Vaan has a dream of his brother Reks, apparently in some sort of hospital. Despite the prologue of the game making it seem like Reks bit the dust within moments, Vaan’s memory of him seems to indicate he was in a vegetative state for some time before expiring. As […]